All Of Us Are Dead

Part 9

  I was sitting on the floor, staring at where my brother once sat, afraid to move in fear of my emotions turning back on from the movement. My world started to feel like it was crumbling worse than before. We had found out that Na-yeon dabbed my brother's injured hand with zombie blood from the wooden stick that Su-hyeok used to apparently kill a zombie with, only I wasn't in here to see that but I was going by what people said.

Mrs Park and the crybaby left, leaving all of us alone in fear but no one tried to stop her besides Dae-su, who was crying because she left us to help Na-yeon from becoming a zombie's meal.

At this point, I didn't care if the bitch died. My brother did nothing to her yet she still killed him, even if she didn't use a weapon. I was suddenly startled whenever I felt a hand on my shoulder, making me jump and snap my body around to see Nam-ra looking at me with a sad look, "I won't apologize for the loss of a family member.. but I will apologize for not trying to stop her.", she looked me right in the eye. 

Slowly, I smiled at what she had apologized for and what she didn't apologize for. "It's okay.. he's in a better place now even if his body is being used for terrible things. I wish you did say something but I won't hold it against you, unless you let it happen again to someone else.", I point my finger at her, which had dried blood on it since we never did find any running water.

"Of course. I wouldn't let it happen again. Never. Your brother was a nice boy, sometimes.", she rolled her eyes jokingly on the last part, getting a small laugh out of me before turning towards everyone else.

Everyone was arguing a bit while Nam-ra and I just stood next to each other, finding comfort in each other's presence. It felt nice to just stand by someone and not speak to them, especially when they don't pity your sadness. "Na-yeon killed someone, then played the victim, and chose to leave on her own. She killed Gyeong-su for no reason at all but to prove she was right.. Nabi lost someone who she shared everything with. Na-yeon deserves what comes to her.", someone said loudly with a cold voice.

I turn my head a bit and look at the girl who had said it, suddenly forgetting her name. "If no one is on your side, is it right to kill?", she asks the boy that was sitting across from her, not at the table but against the little thing they use to make the sound higher in the studio room, where Gyeong-su and I were both sitting. 

"Miss Park acted like we were all wrong."

I felt my face getting hot from the remembrance of my brother's moments. Scared. Hurt.. It bothered me so much to know that he was suffering from fear and pain in his last moments. No one as innocent as Gyeong-su should ever have to go through something like that, never.

"None of us told Na-yeon to go out there. We didn't tell Miss Park to go out there either."

"That's just how she is. Always trying to help people as much as she possibly could.", I mutter loud enough for everyone to hear me, making some people look at me then look away again, angsted. "Why should we feel bad?", the girl asks, looking at me with remorse in her expression. 

No one answered her before I wiped a tear that had fallen from my eyes, freely. I shook my head and looked down, "We shouldn't. We're safer now that she's gone. It's better like that.", I announce to everyone. This time, people were shocked that I would say something like that and some were actually agreeing with me.

"Why would you say that?", On-jo croaks out, her voice a little shaky from not speaking for a while.

"It's true. She never stopped yelling which would draw more of those zombies towards us, killing us quicker. She killed my brother so who knows if she'd kill someone else if she were still here.. and the group is quicker now that it's smaller, right?"